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(Beirut) - The Egyptian government should act to end discrimination against women in judicial positions in all courts, Human Rights Watch said today. The Special Council, a governing body of the State Council, on February 22, 2010, overruled a vote taken on February 15 by an administrative court, known as the Council of State, to bar women from its judicial positions.
Despite this important ruling, women are still barred from serving as judges in other state bodies, including criminal courts, Human Rights Watch said.
"Today's decision is a step forward, and the Suprement Judicial Council should build on the momentum by allowing women to serve as criminal court judges, and in fact in all judicial positions," said Nadya Khalife, women's rights researcher for the Middle East and North Africa at Human Rights Watch. "The continuing discrimination insults the many Egyptian women who are fully qualified to serve as judges."
Although the number of women serving in ministries and parliament has grown in recent years, they remain conspicuously underrepresented in judicial positions, Human Rights Watch said.
In 2003, the only female judge in any court in Egypt was Tahani al-Gibali. She was appointed to the High Constitutional Court by presidential decree. In its 2005 report, "Divorced from Justice," Human Rights Watch found that some judges and officials of the Justice Ministry were outspoken in their opposition to the inclusion of women on the bench.
In 2007, the Supreme Judicial Council selected 31 women to serve as judges in family courts, though some Muslim conservatives in Egypt criticized the decision. Mohamed El-Omda, a member of parliament, was quoted in a 2007 article in Al-Ahram daily as saying, "Women cannot succeed as judges because the burdens of the task are enormous."
The women were appointed, however, by presidential decree and continue to serve.
The Egyptian constitution states in article 40 that "all citizens are equal before the law. They have equal public rights and duties without discrimination due to sex, ethnic origin, language, religion or creed."
As a party to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Egypt has an obligation to eliminate gender-based discrimination in political and public life, and "in particular, shall ensure to women on equal terms with men, the right ... to perform all public functions at all levels."
The United Nations' CEDAW Committee, in its review of Egypt's state report at the end of January 2010, recommended "that the Convention and related domestic legislation be made an integral part of the legal education and training of judges, magistrates, lawyers and prosecutors, particularly those working in the family courts, so that a legal culture supportive of the equality of women with men and non-discrimination on the basis of sex is firmly established in the country."
Today, three women serve as ministers in Egypt's 27-member cabinet. A 2009 law requires that women should hold at least 12 percent of the 518 seats in the lower house of parliament, beginning with the election scheduled for November 2010.
"The exclusion of women from the bench can no longer be acceptable for a society that has demonstrated its commitment to women's political and social participation" Khalife said. "Egypt needs to respect its international obligations to end gender discrimination in all sectors of life."

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RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES HAVE found a young man living alone in a Siberian forest after having apparently spent most of his life living there in a hut with his parents, local officials said today.
Locals near the town of Belokurikha found the man, who told the local prosecutor that he was born in 1993 and had lived in the forest since 1997, when his family decided to leave society.
But his parents left him alone in the hut in May before he finally went to a nearby village to ask for help when the summer ended, the authorities said.
The local prosecutor's office, alarmed that the man may have to spend the Siberian winter in a forest by himself, appealed in court to have his identification documents reestablished so that he can seek seek state support, prosecutor Roman Fomin told AFP.
"I am not sure if he needs all this attention," he said. "He looked normal and healthy, he only spoke slowly, since he doesn't communicate as often as most people."
He said that the man's family went to live in the wild as a conscious decision, but apparently not out of religious reasons. "They are not religious people," he said.
"He was just afraid that he won't survive the winter without his parents," Fomin said. "But maybe they have already come back."
Fomin said that a local woman had brought the young man to the prosecutors out of fear that he may need help through the cold winter, but the man then had gone back to his hiding place in the forest.
The Russian media are variously calling him "forest boy" or the "Siberian Mowgli," after the main character in Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book."
Belokurikha is a well-known resort area in Russia's picturesque Altai region in south Siberia, known for mineral springs, health spas, and skiing.


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The Senate has approved Sen. JD Alexander's vision to immediately create the state's 12th university out of the University of South Florida's branch campus in Lakeland.
Alexander's plan short-cuts a plan already laid out by the Florida Board of Governors to allow USF Polytechnic to split off. The BOG voted in November to allow the campus to do that only after meeting certain benchmarks, including accreditation, increased enrollment and construction of several buildings on its new greenfield campus site in Lakeland.
Students, faculty and even Gov. Rick Scott question the wisdom of veering from that path. Yet, in a lengthy, impassioned speech, Alexander insisted that his way was the right way.
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An Awesome & Mighty Thing, This First Ever Lawyers, Guns & Money Podcast Is
It features Yours Truly and the Farley fellow you see primping there in preview—or wearing a hat, now that I had to re-upload the video—and we're talking about The Hobbit. You're … welcome?
It goes without saying that there are kinks to work out—if only because I'm in charge of the production—and that while many Internet Traditions are honored, some are violated. Case in point: the blog's beloved ampersand is a monstrosity in the font the rest of the credits need to be in. (I promise that sentence will make perfect sense once you watch it.) An "enhanced" audio file will be available shortly, though I can't vouch for the quality of said "enhancements" because we haven't figured out what they'll be yet outside of "enhanced."
But fear not! You'll learn many things in this podcast, including (but not limited to) which of you lot inspire us to invent gang signs just so we can throw some in your honor. And also many things about The Hobbit. Enjoy!
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In this episode, I play a multi-holiday song by Jill Sobule; I talk about the meltdown of the most recent Mad at Dad; I discuss the slow decay of my 2008 Macbook and my options for moving forward; I talk about my ideas of a Linux laptop; I discuss asking for what you want and how to do it; I talk about working menial jobs and the weird pleasure that can result; I mention the Poppy Z. Brite Liquor books; I close with the idea of "done is its own kind of perfection."
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(visited by Ada Kerman, Mendalara, Lucas, Yona and Alex)
07-Sep-2000 -- After our visit to 46N, 123W, we decided to visit this confluence, and hoped that no one else would get there before us.
We used the same planning tools we'd used for our previous trip; the Street Atlas USA software, Ada's Oregon topographical atlas, and the Rand McNally road atlas. There were three possible logging roads coming near the site, and they required approaching this steep and wooded area from widely different directions. We selected the approach which minimized the probable climb needed, which meant that our hike would be along a ridge. In the street atlas USA software, you can highlight a waypoint that must be included in its proposal for a trip route. This resulted in the route we took, and was significantly different from the original route suggested by the software.
Our estimation of the driving time was accurate. But the road we'd hoped to turn on for the last leg was double-gated; we walked. We had estimated it to be a 2-mile one way hike; it turned out to be 3 and 1/2 miles! It took 2 hours longer than we'd hoped. We were quite tired upon returning to the car. Mendalara was carrying the three-year old in a backpack. Also, our water supply ran out on the way back and it was in the eighties. Fortunately the cows (picture 5) supplied some comic relief.
On a positive note, there was no need to bushwhack through the forest, as the path led to a meadow which contained the confluence, and also a great view of the mountain we'd been glimpsing. And we all felt the trip was a good way to spend the day.
Ada, Lucas, and Alex spent much of the walk both ways developing ideas for Degree Confluence games. They thought it could make a good role playing game (RPG) using a system such as Dungeons and Dragons, or a computer game. Later, Ada found out about an RPG for palmtop computers called Kyle's Quest with a free level editor available, so she plans to make a Degree Confluence level in the relatively near future.
While we're putting in links, Ada wants to mention that she wore one of her Bruno t-shirts especially for the trip, but the decoration didn't show up in her picture. Visit the Bruno comic web site if you like comic strips and want to check it out.
Question for the day: is it wise to use this fragile-seeming ecosystem for so much grazing? Not to mention the clearcutting...wonder how the cows get used to the mega-earth moving equipment? I guess if you live in the Northwest, you live with the government's approach to land management.
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Every so often I would encounter Hardy's inequality:
Theorem 1 (Hardy's inequality). If $p>1$, $a_n \geq 0$, and $A_n=a_1+a_2+\cdots+a_n$, then $$\sum_{n=1}^\infty \left(\frac{A_n}{n}\right)^p < \left(\frac{p}{p-1}\right)^p \sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n^p,$$ unless $(a_n)_{n=1}^\infty$ is identically zero. The constant is the best possible.
and its integral version:
Theorem 2 (Hardy's integral inequality). If $p>1$, $f(x) \geq 0$, and $F(x) = \int_0^x f(t) \ dt$, then $$\int_0^\infty \left(\frac{F}{x}\right)^p \ dx < \left(\frac{p}{p-1}\right)^p \int_0^\infty f^p(x) \ dx,$$ unless $f \equiv 0$. The constant is the best possible.
with a comment or two emphasizing how important and fundamental they are. Nevertheless, I have yet to see a good application of the above inequalities. So...
Could you give an application of Theorem 1 or Theorem 2 that you think is particularly useful or instructive?
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What's so strange about women protecting themselves and their families?
Apparently, Glamour magazine believes that illustrating how gun rights are a women's issue constitutes nothing more than "strange, sensationalizing polemics."
In fact, women are the fastest growing demographic seeking and obtaining concealed carry permits for personal protection, and according to a statistical roundup by MSN Living:
- gun-store owners have recorded a 73 percent increase in female customers
- women buying guns specifically for personal defense has climbed by more than 83 percent.
- female participation in target shooting rose from 3.3 million in 2001 to 5 million in 2011, a 51 percent increase
- female participation in hunting lept 42 percent from 1.8 million to nearly 2.6 million over the same period
- an October 2011 Gallup poll showed a record-high 43 percent of American women self-reported a gun in their home or somewhere on their property (compared to 52 percent of men), up 7 percent from the prior year.
In addition, gun manufacturers are responding to the drastic increase in women interested in gun ownership.
Looks like Glamour's views on women and guns are out of fashion.
A Glamour editor deems me "irresponsible" for speaking out against politicians who want to prevent women from using the most effective means available for personal defense.
It is not irresponsible to advocate that women take measures against victimization, it is empowering!
Everyday across the country, law-abiding women (and men) use firearms to thwart violent attacks—often without having to even fire a shot (you can read some of the accounts here and here).
Not only do women face the threat of attacks by strangers–for many women, there is danger present in their own homes.
Glamour states that four women a day are killed by abusive boyfriends and husbands, and their campaign against relationship violence is called "Tell Someone." I wholeheartedly agree—women trapped in abusive relationships should tell someone, preferably the police. But that is not enough. Their next step should be to take all measures available to protect themselves, and refuse to be another statistic.
There are stories upon stories about women who were killed by the very men they had restraining orders against. The National Center for Victims of Crime states that 70 percent of protected orders are violated. But guns can and do save women's lives. A Hessville, Indiana saved her own life by shooting her stalker when he broke into her house and attacked her:
"Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter said on Wednesday he was turning down any charges against the woman in the death of Ryan Lee Bergner, 41, considering her actions to be in self-defense and defense of property.
The Nov. 12 shooting of Bergner as he cornered the 51-year-old woman in an upstairs bedroom closet capped a month of escalating terror — chronicled in a series of police reports filed by the woman — which included break-ins, vandalism and assaults in her workplace.
They had briefly dated over the summer, but Bergner couldn't accept that she didn't want to be his girlfriend, and wouldn't take "no" for an answer, the woman said.
That fatal Monday night, she was watching television at 10:30 p.m. when she heard a window breaking, and called 911.
An audio recording of her conversation with the emergency dispatcher, from the initial break-in to her escape from the dying Bergner six minutes later, was released by Hammond police on Wednesday.
"I'm so scared," the woman said to the 911 operator, who told her to lock herself in a bedroom until police arrived.
Bergner had already broken into her house two days earlier, she reported to police, destroying a clock-radio and stealing several of her undergarments.
"I heard him turn a light on, a hallway light," she told the dispatcher as she hid in a closet, armed with a pistol a friend had given her for protection.
"What are you doing?" she can be heard asking over the sound of her bedroom door being kicked in. "Stop it! Please stop it! Just stop it!"
Gunshots can clearly be heard on the recording. She later said Bergner was on top of her in the closet, his hands around her throat, choking her.
Police found her in her front yard when they arrived moments later, and found Bergner, wearing black leather gloves and a brown leather jacket, lying partially in the bedroom closet with three bullet wounds to his abdomen, a 9 mm pistol on the bed nearby.
"That tape is absolutely chilling," said Hammond Police Chief Brian Miller, who worked for years as a detective with the department's sex crimes division.
Miller said he is regularly asked to speak at meetings of women's organizations and support groups for victims of domestic violence, and in the future will be taking the recording along with him as an example of what can happen".
A man who will stalk or abuse you does not respect you or the law. Stalking, domestic violence, and assault are already illegal—if he's breaking those laws, what makes you think he'll obey a restraining order?
The unfortunate reality is that when seconds count, the police are minutes away. Furthermore, the police have no duty to protect individual crime victims. Women are ultimately the only ones responsibile for their safety. Purchase a firearm, get training on how to use the weapon, and then get a concealed carry license.
Note to Glamour: donating used bras will not end domestic violence, and more laws restricting gun ownership will not stop violent crime. The only way to stop a bad guy (or gal) from harming someone is for a good guy (or gal) to fight back with force.
Encouraging more gun laws will only result in more victims, as law-abiding citizens would continue to obey the law, while criminals continue to ignore it.


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Now, this is a hypothetical question… nothing is planned… just me and my wild ideas here.
Let's say Crusader Weaponry did a small run of custom, semi-auto, legal 16″ barreled (so no special paperwork needed), British Sterling SMG's. 9mm, of course. 34 round mag. Folding stock.
All the internals cleaned, deburred, Slipstreamed, and otherwise fitted. Trigger pull improved. External, the gun is Duracoated a Flat Black, Wolf Grey, or Olive Drab… your choice. And let's say that you could get that gun for… oh, say… only 600 bucks.
Would you want one? Well, yes, of course you do. You are Gun Guys and Gals, and Want isn't the problem… The real question is "Would you BUY one?"
BTW, yes, you could totally bring this to a Crusader Carbine Course… because that would be just that sweet. Easy weapon to handle and shoot and hit with. Slight Variations on normal carbine tactics, but still very workable and effective. And Cheap To Feed. Fun… Sterlings are made out of Fun.


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1 Girl, 4 Looks: A Local Boho Babe Shows Off Her Summer-To-Fall Must-Haves
There's no denying that stylist-slash-blogger Amy Soderlind is definitely one boho babe on the rise. Whether she's styling a shoot for Gap Inc. in the city, chilling on her super-adorable farm in Sebastopol, jamming out with her musician-painter mom, or donning her worldly wardrobe—this local lady's natural-meets-chic approach always leaves us pining for more. To show off some of her favorite summer-to-fall go-to looks, Amy invited us to one of her fave S.F. 'hoods, Hayes Valley, to get her model on. Check out how this pro prepped her earthy-chic outfits after the jump, plus get the scoop on her secret accessories spot.


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JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post [History of Lines #18]
I was very surprised to come across this illustration while browsing the (3 April) 1870 volume of Punch, or the London Charivari .
I cannot think of any particular peculiar or unusual edition of Euclid that was published at about this time to demand such an unusual illustration. (The only newish edition that comes into any possible play here is Oliver Byrne's semi-insane First Six Books of Euclid, published by the Chiswick Press in 1849 and one of the most unusual and beautiful books of any sort printed in the 19th century--but then again that was 21 years before this volume of Punch.) And by "unusual" what I really mean to say is "highly unexpected" , as this all-angular depiction of a woman appears for all the world to be a Cubist- or Expressionist-like image, predating those movements by four decades.
But the Angular Woman just seems to be happenstance, a happy precursor to a revolution-in-the-making, an accident forty+ years too early. She is extraordinary--and for some reason she is smoking a cigarette.
[Below--an illustration from Oliver Byrne, illustrating the propositions of Euclid via the use of color rather than words, a beautiful but non-functioning work.]


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Japanese fanboi first in queue for, er, iPhone 6
Yep, the one that doesn't exist yet
A Japanese man who appears to be a rather overzealous Apple fanboi has started queuing for the iPhone 6, even though it hasn't been announced yet.
Tokyo-based blogger Yoppy, who describes his outing in his blog as "iPhone cosplay" – apparently decided that Wednesday was the right time to dress up as an iPhone and wait outside Apple's flagship Japanese store.
Sadly for Yoppy, who has a sideline in bizarre comedy sketches – his Twitter account features pictures of him, amongst other things, tied up in rope bondage aboard a train and wearing an alarmingly tight superhero costume – he was unable to persuade Cupertino to give him a new mobe. He also failed to pry a release date out of tight-lipped Cupertino.
Luckily for us, he shared the whole strange story on Twitter.
Here's a translation of his tweet (with hat-tip to helpful El Reg reader Ken Y-N)
I'm the world's fastest queuer for the iPhone 6, and I've got email in English from Brazilian and UK news sites. Wish me luck as I have to reply...
(Please be aware that Yoppy's Twitter feed is NSFW – backroom gremlins)
iPhone6に世界最速で並んだやつ、ブラジルのニュースサイトとかイギリスのニュースサイトから英語のメールが届いててんやわんやしてる。頑張って返信しないと…! pic.twitter.com/zwyZmAjzmX
— ヨッピー (@yoppymodel) February 12, 2014
The new iPhone will probably come out in just over six months' time and the rumour mill is already swirling. Some observers say it will have a iNormous screen, while others predict a bezel-free phone with a sapphire glass screen.
Regardless of the eventual design, one thing is clear: lots of young people with too much time on their hands will queue up and wait for one.
Naturally, we'll also be there to point and laugh. ®


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We added a dishwasher back when we remodeled our kitchen, but I've been washing Eleanor's bottles, bowls, and spoons by hand. A tea towel on the counter worked well for laying everything out to dry, but then I found the grass drying rack by Boon. It's adorable.
I tried to make the other side of the sink cute too. The green soap dispenser is for hand soap, and the olive oil bottle is for dish soap.
The green one is great but the other isn't working out as well. I liked the look of it much more than any actual dispensers I had seen, so I thought I was being very clever when I bought it. When I tried to use it though, I realized I'd have to dilute the soap considerably for it to pour through the spout. Oh well. At least I tried, right?


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This circuit features exit and entry delays, an instant alarm zone, an intermittent siren output and automatic reset. By adding external relays you can immobilize the vehicle and flash the lights.
The alarm is "set" by opening Sw1. It can be any small 1-amp single-pole change-over switch - but for added security you could use a key-switch. Once Sw1 is opened you have about 10 to 15 seconds to get out of the vehicle and close the door behind you. When you return and open the door the buzzer will sound. You have 10 to 15 seconds to move Sw1 to the "off" position. If you fail to do so, the siren will sound. The output to the siren is intermittent - it switches on and off. The speed at which it switches on and off is set by C6 and R10. While any trigger-switch remains closed, the siren will continue to sound. About 2 to 3 minutes after all of the switches have been opened, the circuit will reset.
One of the inputs is connected to the vehicle's existing door-switches. This provides the necessary exit and entry delays. It's usually sufficient to connect a SINGLE wire to just ONE of the door switches - they're generally all connected in parallel with the return through the chassis. You can add extra normally-open switches to the door-circuit if you wish; but note that any additional switches will have to be able to carry the current required by your vehicle's interior light.
Any number of normally-open switches may be connected - in parallel - to the "Instant" input. Since they don't have to carry the current for the interior light, you can use any type of switch you like. You may want an instant alarm on the bonnet, the boot, the rear-hatch, the rear-doors etc. It doesn't matter if these already have switches connected to the door-circuit. Simply fit a second switch and connect it to the instant input. It will override the delay circuit. You can use the chassis for the return. However, a ground terminal is provided if - for any reason - you need to run a separate return wire for either zone. If you're not using the instant zone then leave out Q2, R3, R4, R5 & D3.
The exit delay is set by R1 & C1, the entry delay by R9 & C4, and the reset time by R7 & C3. The precise length of any time period depends on the characteristics of the actual components used - especially the tolerance of the capacitors and the exact switching points of the Cmos Gates. However, for this type of application really accurate time periods are unnecessary.
The circuit board and switches must be protected from the elements. Dampness or condensation will cause malfunction. Fit a 1-amp in-line fuse AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE to your power source. This is VERY IMPORTANT. The fuse is there to protect the wiring - not the alarm. Exactly how the system is fitted will depend on the make of your particular vehicle. Consequently, I CANNOT give any further advice on installation.
The circuit is designed to use an electronic Siren drawing 300 to 400mA. It's not usually a good idea to use the vehicle's own Horn because it can be easily located and disconnected. However, if you choose to use the Horn, remember that the alarm relay is too small to carry the necessary current. Connect the coil of a suitably rated relay to the "Siren" output. This can then be used to sound the Horn, flash the lights etc.
Add an Automatic Immobilizer.
Before fitting this immobilizer to your vehicle, carefully consider both the safety implications of its possible failure - and the legal consequences of installing a device that could cause an accident.
If YOU decide to proceed, you will need to use the highest standard of materials and workmanship. Remember that the relay MUST be large enough to handle the current required by your ignition system. Choose one specifically designed for automobiles - it will be protected against the elements and will give the best long-term reliability. You don't want it to let you down on a cold wet night - or worse still - in fast moving traffic!!! Please note that I am UNABLE to help any further with either the choice of a suitable relay - or with advice on its installation.
When you turn-off the ignition, the relay will de-energize and the second set of contacts (RLA2) will break the ignition circuit - automatically immobilizing the vehicle. When the ignition is switched on again the relay will not energize; and the vehicle's ignition circuit will remain broken. You must press Sw2 to energize the relay. It then latches itself on using the first set of contacts (RLA1); while the second set of contacts (RLA2) complete the connection to the ignition circuit.
The design has a number of advantages. It operates automatically when you turn the ignition off - so there's no need to remember to activate it. The relay uses no current while the ignition is off - so there's no drain on the battery. To de-activate it you'll need to have the ignition key and you'll need to know the whereabouts of the push-switch. Sw2 only requires a single wire because its return is through the chassis. It carries no load other than the current required by the relay-coil. So almost any small "momentary-action, push-to-make" switch will do. For extra security Sw2 could be key-operated.
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It follows the formula that Spacetime's other games have done, but let's just get this out of the way immediately: Arcane Legends is the chaser to the bitter shot that was Dark Legends.
Dark Legends wasn't bad, but it didn't boast much in the way of actual improvements to the game, especially compared to the leap that Star Legends was. The energy system was a mistake, and is nowhere to be seen in this game. The social game timers and missions weren't as captivating as they could or should have been, and it all made it very difficult to find other players. Thankfully, the core of the game was the same, so a lot of good elements remained. Arcane Legends keeps this core, ditches much of what Dark Legends did wrong, and adds pets that can help out in battle and be leveled up to be even better. I have a turtle named Guapo. He's awesome. He does flips and stuff. Why would I want any other pet?
The mission and quest set up is handled extremely well, allowing players to just wander to an area, team up with a few other wayward adventurers, and either party up with them for long-term play or stick together with a group of friends. There are guild and friend list features for those who need the social aspects, but ronin will find their desires satisfied too: there's almost always a party to join up with.The cross-platform technology that Spacetime Studios is using is still the top in its class. The ability to play with anyone on any platform, be it Chrome, iOS, or Android, still works extremely well. Very few games can boast half of the equation, with the ability to play with 3 different platforms or to carry data across various devices, but Arcane Legends continues to get it perfect. There are more options for easily logging in, including Facebook Connect for extreme convenience. This will hopefully only stop being novel when it's available everywhere.
While the game sports some much-needed tweaks that drastically improve the experience, it's still at its heart, very similar to the rest of the series. And really, considering that this is the fourth entry in two and a half years, major iteration is hard to come by. But mobile MMORPGs are such a rarity still, and the multiplayer still gets right what other games continually fail to do properly. Those turned off by Dark Legends will find a brighter, happier, and better experience with Arcane Legends.


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Japan Tops Australia In Softball As Delayed Tokyo Games Open
Jul 21, 2021, 9:34 AM
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FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Yukiko Ueno had waited 4,718 days for this moment, 13 long years that included an extra delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Finally, after all the doubts the Tokyo Olympics would ever take place, she was back on the mound trying to start her country to another softball gold medal.
"Before the game I was actually trying to calm down and not let myself overly feel excited about this opportunity to go back to the mound for the Olympics," she said through a translator. "I was overly thinking."
The 39-year-old pitcher settled down from a shaky start to allow two hits over 4 1/3 innings in a nearly empty stadium, and host Japan got off to a winning start when the Olympics got underway, beating Australia 8-1 Wednesday. The U.S. defeated Italy 2-0 in the second game of a tripleheader.
Back in business! 🥎
After helping Japan 🇯🇵 secure #softball gold at Beijing 2008, Ueno Yukiko leads the host nation to an opening victory over Australia 🇦🇺 at #Tokyo2020. 💪#StrongerTogether #Olympics pic.twitter.com/F897GgVULt
— Olympics (@Olympics) July 21, 2021
Playing about 150 miles north of the main Olympic sites in Tokyo, the teams lined up for the national anthems in a stadium with a listed capacity of 30,000 that had about 50 spectators, presumably team and Olympic officials, plus media.
The first two days of the softball tournament are being played about 40 miles from the site of a 2011 nuclear power plant disaster. The rest of the tournament will be in Yokohama, near Tokyo.
"It's kind of a disappointment," Ueno said. "We wanted to demonstrate our play in front of people of Fukushima, who have made a lot of efforts to reconstruct Fukushima."
Fans were barred from the Olympics because of the coronavirus pandemic. Many in Japan have questioned whether the Olympics should take place at all with low levels of vaccination in the nation.
"Australia can create its own excitement," third baseman Stacey Porter said.
Ueno, who won the 2008 gold medal game, struck out seven and threw 85 pitches for the win.
Minori Naito and Saki Yamazaki hit two-run homers off loser Kaia Parnaby and Yu Yamamoto, who had three RBIs, added a two-run drive against Tarni Stepto in the fifth that ended the game under a rout rule.
Ueno started Australia's Michelle Cox off with a ball at 9:02 a.m. at Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium, beginning an Olympics whose viability has been repeatedly questioned.
It was 88 degrees with 60% humidity for the morning start, which had the sun in the eyes of left-handed batters. The artificial turf made it seem even warmer, and Stepto pitched without a cap.
Japan has officially put all of softball on notice, sheesh! pic.twitter.com/evxGevWpqM
— Coach Christi, DNP 👩🏾⚕🥎 (@SnapMyAd) July 21, 2021
Ueno forced in a run in the first by hitting Chelsea Forkin with a pitch, her second straight hit batter.
Yamamoto singled in a run in the bottom half and Japan took a 3-1 lead in the third when Naito fouled off a 1-2 changeup, and drove a hanging changeup over the left-center field fence.
Yamazaki reached on a grounder leading off the fourth when Forkin dropped the throw at first, and Fujita drove a 1-0 pitch over the 220-foot fence in left center. Nodoka Harada added a sacrifice fly off Stepto for a 6-1 lead.
Japan is the defending softball gold medalist after upsetting the U.S. in the 2008 final. Softball and baseball were dropped for 2012 and 2016 and restored for this year's Olympics. They already have been dropped for the 2024 Paris Games and are likely to be restored for 2028 in Los Angeles.
Japan coach Reika Utsugi had thought Ueno would be especially ready for the opener.
"She was the reason we that became so strong a team," Utsugi said, "and we were able to dream about winning the gold."


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Malignancy (from Latin male, meaning 'badly', and -gnus, meaning 'born') is the tendency of a medical condition to become progressively worse.
Malignancy is most familiar as a characterization of cancer. A malignant tumor contrasts with a non-cancerous benign tumor in that a malignancy is not self-limited in its growth, is capable of invading into adjacent tissues, and may be capable of spreading to distant tissues. A benign tumor has none of those properties.
Malignancy in cancers is characterized by anaplasia, invasiveness, and metastasis.[1] Malignant tumors are also characterized by genome instability, so that cancers, as assessed by whole genome sequencing, frequently have between 10,000 and 100,000 mutations in their entire genomes.[2] Cancers usually show tumour heterogeneity, containing multiple subclones.[3] They also frequently have reduced expression of DNA repair enzymes due to epigenetic methylation of DNA repair genes or altered microRNAs that control DNA repair gene expression.
Uses of "malignant" in oncology:
- Malignancy, malignant neoplasm and malignant tumor are synonymous with cancer
- Malignant ascites
- Malignant transformation
Non-oncologic disorders referred to as "malignant":
- Malignant hypertension
- Malignant hyperthermia
- Malignant otitis externa
- Malignant tertian malaria (malaria caused specifically by Plasmodium falciparum)
- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
- Wilkins, E. M. 2009. clinical practice of the dental hygienist tenth edition. lippincott williams and wilkins, a walters kluwer business. Philadelphia, PA.
- Tuna M, Amos CI (November 2013). "Genomic sequencing in cancer". Cancer Lett. 340 (2): 161–70. doi:10.1016/j.canlet.2012.11.004. PMC 3622788. PMID 23178448.
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Who were the saints that were raised from the dead at Christ's death?
The following comments from The Bible Knowledge Commentary should answer your questions.
27:51-53 (Mark 15:38; Luke 23:44-45). At the time of Jesus' death, three momentous events occurred. First, the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. This curtain separated the holy place from the holy of holies in the temple (Heb. 9:2-3). The fact that this occurred from top to bottom signified that God is the One who ripped the thick curtain. It was not torn from the bottom by men ripping it. God was showing that the way of access into His presence was now available for everyone, not simply the Old Testament high priest (Heb. 4:14-16; 10:19-22).
Second, at Christ's death a strong earthquake occurred, splitting rocks (Matt. 27:51). Truly the death of Christ was a powerful, earthshaking event with repercussions affecting even the creation. A third event mentioned was recorded only by Matthew. The tombs of many holy (righteous) people (v. 52) were opened, probably at a Jerusalem cemetery. The NIV suggests that these saints were resurrected when Jesus died and then went into Jerusalem after Jesus' resurrection. A number of commentators agree with this view. Many others, however, say that since Christ is the firstfruits of the dead (1 Cor. 15:23), their resurrection did not occur till He was raised. In this view, the phrase "after Jesus' resurrection" goes with the words were raised to life and came out of the tombs. This is possible in the Greek, and is suggested in the KJV and the NASB. The tombs, then, broke open at Christ's death, probably by the earthquake, thus heralding Christ's triumph in death over sin, but the bodies were not raised till Christ was raised.
These people returned to Jerusalem, (the Holy City) where they were recognized by friends and family. Like Lazarus (John 11:43-44), Jairus' daughter (Luke 8:52-56), and the widow of Nain's son (Luke 7:13-15), they too passed through physical death again. Or some say they may have been raised with glorified bodies like the Lord's. Walvoord suggests this event was "a fulfillment of the Feast of the Firstfruits of harvest mentioned in Leviticus 23:10-14. On that occasion, as a token of the coming harvest, the people would bring a handful of grain to the priest. The resurrection of these saints, occurring after Jesus Himself was raised, is a token of the coming harvest when all the saints will be raised" (Walvoord, Matthew: Thy Kingdom Come, p. 236).
Related Topics: Dispensational / Covenantal Theology, Resurrection


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2005 Models
Found: Missing Women in Grand Teton National Park, Help locate their Vue
Attention! These are friends of someone I know through work. The ladies went missing on what was supposed to be a camping trip. The authorities are hoping to track them down by finding where their car is parked. Its a 2005 black Saturn Vue with modified front turn signals. They think it may be parked at a trailhead in the Grand Teton National Park. If any of you are in the area (Jackson, Wyoming) please keep an eye out for this car.
Have You Experienced the Ignition Switch Issue?
We're interested in talking to owners of 2003-2007 Saturn Ions who have had their ignition replaced or have experienced the engine shutoff problems. In addition, according the NBC News, there were also about 500 people in the country who were given one of the plastic plugs (shown above) a few years ago to put into their key ring from GM. Did anyone get one of these?
General Motors Ignition Switch Recall Notice Being Sent to Saturn Ion and Sky Owners
SaturnFans.com has obtained a copy of the letter being sent out to Ion owners impacted by the ignition switch recall. The bottom line: replacement parts are not available and if you have to drive your car make sure you remove the key fob and any other keys to eliminate any excess weight on the ignition key.
NHTSA Investigating Saturn Ion Steering Defect
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has launched an investigation to determine whether General Motors should have also recalled the Saturn Ion when it recalled the Chevrolet Cobalt for a power steering defect back in 2010. Michigan Live reports that the government agency has received "846 complaints about power steering problems in Saturn Ions from the 2004-2007 model years."
Saturn Ion and Sky Now Included in GM's Faulty Ignition Switch Recall
General Motors is expanding the recall of certain 2003-2007 model year vehicles to correct a condition with the ignition switch that may allow the key to unintentionally move or switch to the "accessory" or "off" position, turning off the engine and most of the electrical components on the vehicle.
Flashback Friday: 2003-07 Saturn Ion
From the Windsor Star: The Ion replaced the four-door SL and two-door SC coupe models as the cornerstone of the Saturn small-car lineup. Both the Ion sedan and Quad Coupe, so called because it came with small, clamshell-style rear openings, used plastic body panels to fend off dings and dents.
Report: General Motors Agrees to Pay Saturn Owners for Continuously Variable Transmission Defects
The Sacramento Bee reported earlier this month that GM will pay owners of Saturn Ions and Vues equipped with continuously variable transmissions.
2005 Saturn Preview
With the 2005 model year just around the corner, SaturnFans.com has assembled a list of the rumored changes to each of Saturn's existing models. Look for a more complete - and official - list to be posted online as soon as it becomes available.
Ion to Get Makeover for 2005
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SaturnFans.com has learned that at a press conference earlier this week, Gary Cowger, GM President of North America, hinted that GM plans to "change" the Ion later this year. While Cowger did not elaborate as to what changes are coming for the 2005 model year, interior and exterior updates are likely in store.
Rumored Relay Options and Specs
Last week Saturn unveiled its all-new 2005 Relay sport van to the media in a virtual press conference. For the first time we were able to get an official look at what we could expect from Saturn's upcoming minivan. However, with availability of the Relay still almost a year away, Saturn didn't share all of the details about the new model.
Random Article from the SaturnFans.com Archives
Sky Plant to be Shutdown for Five Weeks Due to Slumping Demand
The Detroit News reported on Friday that General Motors plans to temporarily close its Wilmington, Delaware manufacturing facility for five weeks beginning today due to slow sales of the Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice roadsters. The plant also builds the Opel GT and Daewoo G2X, which are exported for sale overseas. |


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Atmospher Sci & Global Chg
Staff Awards & Honors
February 2013
Jim Dooley Authored Thoughtful Editorial on Avoiding Scientific Plagiarism
With a long-held passion for research integrity, James J. Dooley, atmospheric scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory advises others on the perils of poor citing practices, which can result in plagiarism and fraud. In International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control (IJGGC), Dooley, an associate editor for Integrated Systems and Economics at the journal, focuses on the authors' responsibility to appropriately cite the work of others and even cite their own previously published works. Dooley describes a powerful software tool called iThenticate that editors use to check for plagiarism. He also offers several suggestions for authors so that they hit the mark for sound research practices.
"The goal of the editorial is two-fold," said Dooley. "First, to alert authors to the fact that the editors use very powerful software that makes spotting plagiarism easy. Second, to offer guidelines helping authors understand what is expected of them when citing the work of others and citing their own prior-published research."
Dooley has championed the cause of research integrity throughout his career. In his early days at PNNL, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science's Office of Energy Research asked him to clarify the degree to which research misconduct took place in the physical sciences. At that time it was widely, yet mistakenly, believed that research misconduct was limited to the biomedical sciences.
"Since that time, promoting good research practices has been a passion of mine," said Dooley. "I was motivated to write this article recently when I saw yet another paper submitted to the journal that contained an egregious amount of plagiarized material."
IJGGC is the premier peer-reviewed publication in the field of carbon dioxide capture and storage science and engineering and is also in the top tier of journals in the broader fields of meteorology and atmospheric sciences, engineering and environmental research, and energy and fuels research.
Working at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, Dooley is sought after for his expertise in carbon capture and storage research and technology. He was a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage and a significant contributor to the IPCC report that won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He is also a leader in the scientific community on government policy addressing scientific misconduct.


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Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Gilles Marini has made a name for himself in Hollywood, thanks to roles on ABC Family's "Switched at Birth" and "Brothers & Sisters," and competing on "Dancing With the Stars."
The 36-year-old was born in France, but didn't make his acting debut until he was 29 and living in the U.S.
"I'm an American product," Marini said in a recent interview. "I never worked a day in my life in France in this business. It's funny because my wife said not long ago, `Oh, you are French but you are an American actor.' And now an American citizen. ... It's funny. Everything has been done in America."
While Marini would like to make a film in France and cites French filmmaker Luc Besson as someone he would like to work with, he says it's not necessary to his career.
"Don't forget 90 percent of the actors in France, their dream is to come here. I'm here. Why go back, you know? Except if it's a project that would matter," he said.
On "Switched at Birth," Marini plays Angelo Sorrento, the father of a teenage daughter who was switched in the hospital as a newborn with another baby. The two teens grew up in very different environments.
There's more to the show than its soap opera sounding-title. Some of the other characters are deaf, and their scenes are performed using American Sign Language with open-captioning.
The series, which also stars D.W. Moffett and Lea Thompson, will air an all-ASL episode in March, told from the perspective of its deaf characters.
Marini believes "Switched" is helping both hearing and deaf people understand each other better.
"It's brilliant. ... I think the show changes a lot of people's perspective," he said.
"Switched at Birth" airs Mondays at 8 p.m. EST.
Alicia Rancilio covers entertainment for The Associated Press. Follow her online at http://www.twitter.com/aliciar
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"Phineas and Ferb" & "Jessie" Lead Disney Channel to Victory for the Week of Jan. 28 – Feb. 3, 2013
via Disney Channel press release:
Ratings Highlights Jan. 28 – Feb. 3, 2013
Final National Ratings
Disney Channel Extends Streak as TV's #1 Network in Total Day
to 86 Consecutive Weeks in Kids 6-11 and Tweens
~ "Phineas and Ferb" is Cable TV's #1 Telecast in Kids 6-11; "Jessie" #1 in Tweens
Disney Junior Block's "Sofia the First" and "Doc McStuffins"
Rank as the Week's Top 2 Cable TV Series in Kids 2-5
Disney Channel: Total Day and Prime Highlights
For the week of January 28, 2013, Disney Channel ranked as TV's #1 network for the 86th consecutive week in Kids 6-11 (546,000/2.3 rating) and Tweens 9-14 (498,000/2.1 rating), surpassing Nickelodeon by double digits for the 65th (+25% – vs. 437,000) and 67th straight weeks (+66% – vs. 300,000), respectively.
In Prime, Disney Channel extended its streak as the #1 cable TV network to 405 consecutive weeks in Kids 6-11 (976,000/4.1 rating – nearly 8 years) and to 141 consecutive weeks in Tweens 9-14 (858,000/3.6 rating – nearly 3 years), and placed a competitive #2 in Total Viewers (2.2 million).
In Total Viewers, Friday's original lineup saw "Jessie" hit season highs (3.84 million), "Phineas and Ferb" hit a near 6-month high (3.77 million) and "A.N.T. Farm" at a near 7-month high (3.31 million).
Disney Channel delivered the week's Top 5 cable TV telecasts in Kids 6-11 (9 of the Top 10), and Top 7 in Tweens (Top 5 below):
Disney Junior Preschooler Block
For the week, Disney Junior, Disney Channel's preschooler block for kids age 2-7 and their caregivers, delivered the week's Top 2 cable TV series in Kids 2-5 with "Sofia the First" (765,000/4.8 rating), and "Doc McStuffins" (704,000/4.4 rating), representing the block's 6th consecutive week with the #1 preschool cable TV series in the demo.
- Overall, led by "Sofia the First" and "Doc McStuffins," the block gave Disney Channel the week's Top 2 cable TV series in Kids 2-5 and Girls 2-5, the Top 3 cable TV series in Boys 2-5 and the Top 4 preschool cable TV series in Total Viewers and Women 18-49:
About Disney Channel:
Disney Channel is a 24-hour kid-driven, family inclusive television network that taps into the world of kids and families through original series and movies. Currently available on basic cable in nearly 99 million U.S. homes and to millions of other viewers on Disney Channels around the world, Disney Channel is part of the Disney/ABC Television Group.
About Disney Junior:
Disney Junior reflects the emotional connection generations of consumers have to Disney storytelling and Disney characters, both classic and contemporary. It invites mom and dad to join their child in the Disney experience of magical, musical and heartfelt stories and characters, while incorporating specific learning and development themes designed for kids age 2-7. Disney Junior's series blend Disney's unparalleled storytelling and characters kids love deeply with learning, including early math, language skills, healthy eating and lifestyles, and social skills. Disney Junior launched in February 2011 with a daily programming block on Disney Channel. In its first year, Disney Junior posted the network's biggest yearly audience in the daypart in Total Viewers, Kids 2-5, Boys 2-5 and Women 18-49, increasing by double-digit margins among preschooler demographics over year-ago levels. On March 23, 2012 Disney Junior added a cable and satellite channel in the U.S. Disney Junior channels in Japan, India and Disney Junior Portugal launched in fall 2012, bringing the total number of channels to 33 worldwide.
[Source: NTI, U.S. ratings. Week of 1/28/13-2/3/13: Live + Same Day. Program ranks for Disney Junior block based on 2+ telecasts.


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Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary. Scheme demonstrates that a very small number of rules for forming expressions, with no restrictions on how they are composed, suffice to form a practical and efficient programming language that is flexible enough to support most of the major programming paradigms in use today.
Scheme was one of the first programming languages to incorporate first-class procedures as in the lambda calculus, thereby proving the usefulness of static scope rules and block structure in a dynamically typed language. Scheme was the first major dialect of Lisp to distinguish procedures from lambda expressions and symbols, to use a single lexical environment for all variables, and to evaluate the operator position of a procedure call in the same way as an operand position. By relying entirely on procedure calls to express iteration, Scheme emphasized the fact that tail-recursive procedure calls are essentially gotos that pass arguments. Scheme was the first widely used programming language to embrace first-class escape procedures, from which all previously known sequential control structures can be synthesized. A subsequent version of Scheme introduced the concept of exact and inexact number objects, an extension of Common Lisp's generic arithmetic. More recently, Scheme became the first programming language to support hygienic macros, which permit the syntax of a block-structured language to be extended in a consistent and reliable manner.
To help guide the standardization effort, the editors have adopted a set of principles, presented below. Like the Scheme language defined in Revised5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme [14], the language described in this report is intended to:
allow programmers to read each other's code, and allow development of portable programs that can be executed in any conforming implementation of Scheme;
derive its power from simplicity, a small number of generally useful core syntactic forms and procedures, and no unnecessary restrictions on how they are composed;
allow programs to define new procedures and new hygienic syntactic forms;
support the representation of program source code as data;
make procedure calls powerful enough to express any form of sequential control, and allow programs to perform non-local control operations without the use of global program transformations;
allow interesting, purely functional programs to run indefinitely without terminating or running out of memory on finite-memory machines;
allow educators to use the language to teach programming effectively, at various levels and with a variety of pedagogical approaches; and
allow researchers to use the language to explore the design, implementation, and semantics of programming languages.
In addition, this report is intended to:
allow programmers to create and distribute substantial programs and libraries, e.g., implementations of Scheme Requests for Implementation, that run without modification in a variety of Scheme implementations;
support procedural, syntactic, and data abstraction more fully by allowing programs to define hygiene-bending and hygiene-breaking syntactic abstractions and new unique datatypes along with procedures and hygienic macros in any scope;
allow programmers to rely on a level of automatic run-time type and bounds checking sufficient to ensure type safety; and
allow implementations to generate efficient code, without requiring programmers to use implementation-specific operators or declarations.
While it was possible to write portable programs in Scheme as described in Revised5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme, and indeed portable Scheme programs were written prior to this report, many Scheme programs were not, primarily because of the lack of substantial standardized libraries and the proliferation of implementation-specific language additions.
In general, Scheme should include building blocks that allow a wide variety of libraries to be written, include commonly used user-level features to enhance portability and readability of library and application code, and exclude features that are less commonly used and easily implemented in separate libraries.
The language described in this report is intended to also be backward compatible with programs written in Scheme as described in Revised5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme to the extent possible without compromising the above principles and future viability of the language. With respect to future viability, the editors have operated under the assumption that many more Scheme programs will be written in the future than exist in the present, so the future programs are those with which we should be most concerned.
Many people contributed significant help to this revision of the report. Specifically, we thank Aziz Ghuloum and André van Tonder for contributing reference implementations of the library system. We thank Alan Bawden, John Cowan, Sebastian Egner, Aubrey Jaffer, Shiro Kawai, Bradley Lucier, and André van Tonder for contributing insights on language design. Marc Feeley, Martin Gasbichler, Aubrey Jaffer, Lars T Hansen, Richard Kelsey, Olin Shivers, and André van Tonder wrote SRFIs that served as direct input to the report. Marcus Crestani, David Frese, Aziz Ghuloum, Arthur A. Gleckler, Eric Knauel, Jonathan Rees, and André van Tonder thoroughly proofread early versions of the report.
We would also like to thank the following people for their help in creating this report: Lauri Alanko, Eli Barzilay, Alan Bawden, Brian C. Barnes, Per Bothner, Trent Buck, Thomas Bushnell, Taylor Campbell, Ludovic Courtès, Pascal Costanza, John Cowan, Ray Dillinger, Jed Davis, J.A. "Biep" Durieux, Carl Eastlund, Sebastian Egner, Tom Emerson, Marc Feeley, Matthias Felleisen, Andy Freeman, Ken Friedenbach, Martin Gasbichler, Arthur A. Gleckler, Aziz Ghuloum, Dave Gurnell, Lars T Hansen, Ben Harris, Sven Hartrumpf, Dave Herman, Nils M. Holm, Stanislav Ievlev, James Jackson, Aubrey Jaffer, Shiro Kawai, Alexander Kjeldaas, Eric Knauel, Michael Lenaghan, Felix Klock, Donovan Kolbly, Marcin Kowalczyk, Thomas Lord, Bradley Lucier, Paulo J. Matos, Dan Muresan, Ryan Newton, Jason Orendorff, Erich Rast, Jeff Read, Jonathan Rees, Jorgen Schäfer, Paul Schlie, Manuel Serrano, Olin Shivers, Jonathan Shapiro, Jens Axel Søgaard, Jay Sulzberger, Pinku Surana, Mikael Tillenius, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, David Van Horn, André van Tonder, Reinder Verlinde, Alan Watson, Andrew Wilcox, Jon Wilson, Lynn Winebarger, Keith Wright, and Chongkai Zhu.
We would like to thank the following people for their help in creating the previous revisions of this report: Alan Bawden, Michael Blair, George Carrette, Andy Cromarty, Pavel Curtis, Jeff Dalton, Olivier Danvy, Ken Dickey, Bruce Duba, Marc Feeley, Andy Freeman, Richard Gabriel, Yekta Gürsel, Ken Haase, Robert Hieb, Paul Hudak, Morry Katz, Chris Lindblad, Mark Meyer, Jim Miller, Jim Philbin, John Ramsdell, Mike Shaff, Jonathan Shapiro, Julie Sussman, Perry Wagle, Daniel Weise, Henry Wu, and Ozan Yigit.
We thank Carol Fessenden, Daniel Friedman, and Christopher Haynes for permission to use text from the Scheme 311 version 4 reference manual. We thank Texas Instruments, Inc. for permission to use text from the TI Scheme Language Reference Manual [26]. We gladly acknowledge the influence of manuals for MIT Scheme [20], T [21], Scheme 84 [12], Common Lisp [25], Chez Scheme [8], PLT Scheme [11], and Algol 60 [1].
We also thank Betty Dexter for the extreme effort she put into setting this report in TeX, and Donald Knuth for designing the program that caused her troubles.
The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Computer Science Department of Indiana University, the Computer and Information Sciences Department of the University of Oregon, and the NEC Research Institute supported the preparation of this report. Support for the MIT work was provided in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense under Office of Naval Research contract N00014-80-C-0505. Support for the Indiana University work was provided by NSF grants NCS 83-04567 and NCS 83-03325.